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@@ -227,20 +227,6 @@ Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
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-What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace
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-When: 2.6.21
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-Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for
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- the BIOS. The device names are completely arbitrary
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- and have no place being exposed to user-space.
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- For those interested in the BIOS ACPI namespace,
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- the BIOS can be extracted and disassembled with acpidump
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- and iasl as documented in the pmtools package here:
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- http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils
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-Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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What: ACPI procfs interface
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When: July 2007
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Why: After ACPI sysfs conversion, ACPI attributes will be duplicated
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